How many radiocommunications facilities are in my local area?
All radiocommunications facilities, including mobile phone antennas, must be licensed by the ACMA. The ACMA maintains a register of radiocommunications licences. The register lists radiocommunications facilities that are operational. If a facility is currently being installed, it is unlikely to appear on the register. Most carriers forward their registrations to the ACMA in batches at regular intervals and the register may not list all radiocommunications facilities current at any particular time. For large searches, it may be easier to purchase this database on CD-ROM, which is available from ACMA offices. A national site archive has been developed by the communications industry to improve access to information about the deployment of mobile phone infrastructure across Australia. However, the archive may not yet contain information about every mobile phone tower deployed by carriers. The archive may contain information such as EME reports about a particular communications facility. Th
